Wole Soyinka
Playwright and poet; first African Nobel laureate in Literature
The playwright who made conscience a weapon against tyranny.
The rise
A dramatist, poet, and essayist, Soyinka became in 1986 the first African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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